Plants > Carnivorous Plants
The Violet Corkscrew Plant (Genlisea violacea) is an extraordinary carnivorous perennial herb endemic to the rugged, mist-veiled sandstone plateaus and quartz-sand wetlands of eastern Brazil’s Chapada Diamantina and Espinhaço ranges. While bearing a modest...
Fish > Basslets & Grammatidae
The Cuban Golden Basslet (Gramma dejongi) is one of the most stunning and highly coveted teleost discoveries of modern ichthyology, formally described in 2010 from deep vertical reefs off the southern coast of Cuba. Closely related to the famous royal gramma, this...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Epiphytic Orchids
The Telipogon-flowered Lepanthes (Lepanthes telipogoniflora) is an astonishing miniature marvel of the botanical universe, native strictly to the rain-soaked montane cloud forests along the Pacific slopes of the Western Andes in Colombia. Renowned among botanists and...
Invertebrates > Halonoproctidae & Trapdoor Spiders
The Ravine Trapdoor Spider (Cyclocosmia truncata) is undeniably one of the most anatomically bizarre and specialized arachnids in North America. Inhabiting steep, mossy hardwood ravines across the southeastern United States, this secretive fossorial mygalomorph is...
